Closer Look to Any.Do To-do List & Task List

We always need to remember the things that we have to do. In a our busy daily life sometimes remembering things can be difficult. Most people taking notes to remember the things they need to do. Any.DO comes at this point and helps people as a to-do list & task list on their smart phone. It is designed with beauty of simplicity and makes remembering easier for people. Its user friendly interface makes the app more natural.

You can create an account to sync all your list in the cloud and access it through all your devices. Connect via Facebook or use your e-mail to create an account. You can also make sync with Google Tasks within the app.

Voice to text is other great feature of Any.Do. Tap the microphone icon and you can take notes by just saying them. The app has also a text prediction feature to make your typing easier.

Any.Do allows you to add reminder for your tasks not to forget important things. You can also make this reminders repetitive and share your to-do lists with your friends.

Pulse News is a great news application that collects and brings together various magazines, blogs and newspapers for you. It lets you to select your favorite categories and compose them as a separate pages. You can easily switch between pages and see the list of news topics. If you like some content in the Pulse, you can “higlight” it so it will be shared with your friends. Also see what news your friends highlighted.

Version: 3.1.3

Requires: Android 2.2 and up

Category: News & Magazines

Size: 8.3 M

Price: Free

Closer Look to Pulse News Android Application

News & Magazines apps lets you to see different kinds of news from different resources in one place. These kind of applications are very time saving because of their compact structure and we have reviewed similar news apps like News Republic, Appy Geek and Flipboard.

When you open the Pulse News for the first time, you need to log-in with your account. Here, you have two options, you can create a new account or log-in with your existing Facebook account. After logging-in succesfully to the app, you need to select your interests or categories. Some example of topics which you can chose are Technology, Science, Design, Comics, Health, Fashion and much more…

These topics are defined as a separate page. Then you can easily switch between them and see the latest news and contents. Every single page is organized as rows and each row has the contents from specific resource. You can see the contents in a preview mode with one thumbnail image and short description. If you want to read it in more detail just tap on it and separate page will be opened.

Another good feature of Pulse News is customization. You can easily add/remove or change position of news sources using “edit” button located on the right-top of the screen.

Other Features of Pulse News

You can highlight stories that you care about. Then your friends can see them. Also you can look what your friends highlighted.

Read on Web: Read the news from their original pages on the web.

Save stories: Save the contents and read it later even you are offline.

Hotels.com – Hotel Booking is an interactive hotel booking that is designed by Hotels.com.

Version: Varies with device

Requires: Varies with device

Category: Travel & Local

Size: Varies with device

Price: Free

Closer Look to Hotels.com – Hotel Booking

Finding a suitable hotel room is important to have an enjoyable trip. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a hotel room that you desire. Hotels.com – Hotel Booking app makes finding hotels easier for you. You can check the available hotels and make booking from your mobile phone on the go. You can find over 154,000 hotels from 200 countries giving you different options to choose from. Comments from other users will help you to make your decision clearly. TripAdvisor reviews are also included in the app.

Other Features

You can choose from over 20.000 last minute hotel deals, discounts and promotions while booking.

Tonight’s Local Deals will help you to find hotel rooms for tonight with special daily offers and late room reservations.

The app offers various choices including cheap hotel rooms to 5 star luxury suite. You can also find accomondation infromation for apartments and B&Bs.

Besides reading reviews about hotels, you can also write your own opinions to guide other users.

You can see the location of the hotel on the map. Your GPS information will be used to find the hotels nearby.

Sort, filter and compare by price, deals, ratings or reviews with the powerful Hotels.com search tools

You can see your previous booking from the My Reservations section.

You can see prices and make booking dricetly on the app.

Photos of the hotels are also included. You can see photos to make your decision clearly.

Additional information about hotels can also be reached including guest rating, facilities, cancellation policy and nearby points of interest.

Last Words

Hotels.com – Hotel Booking is useful app that helps you to find hotel rooms. It is a convenient way to find a suitable hotel room fastly.

MyScript Calculator is a hand writing calculator that you can use your fingers and draw calculations easily. It automatically recognizes what you write and converts to real equation in a real time.

Version: 1.1.2.250

Requires: Android 2.1 and up

Category: Tools

Size: 4.6 M

Price: Free

Closer Look to MyScript Calculator

Calculators are one of the must tools that we need often in our life and work. Thanks to mobile phones became widespread, calculator applications take classic calculators’s place. After the smart phones became widespread, so many handful and well designed calculator applications released so far.

There are numerous calculator apps in the market. Some of them are simple and used for basic calculations and some of them are designed for more advanced scientific calculations. MyScript Calculator is one of them but it differs from the others because it lets you to draw calculations using your finger.

Usage and Main Features of the MyScript Calculator Android Application

When you open MyScript Calculator app, you will see an empty area with the paper pattern look. There, you can write an operation you want to calculate just using your fingers and it instantly recognizes it and gives a result. This is very time saving feature if you think about long and complex operations with so many brackets and operators.

Even you make some mistakes while writing it can still mostly understand it and make calculations again. So, you can feel comfortable when writing something on the screen.

Another great feature of this application is you can write equations like this: 3 + ? = 10. It can calculate the number for ? as 7 and writes there.

Must-Have Recipes from BHG is a free recipe app from Better Homes and Gardens. The app is inspired from Red Plaid cookbooks of Better Homes and Gardens.

Version: 1.0.1

Requires: Android 2.3.3 and up

Category: Lifestyle

Size: 3.6 MB

Price: Free

Closer Look to Must-Have Recipes from BHG

Must-Have Recipes from BHG is not only a recipe book. The app also offers important tips and secrets about cooking. There are more than 500 recipes with photos available for you.

The app offers wide range of dishes that organized into categories. Categories includes breads, main dishes, desserts, salads, vegetables, grilling, breakfast and brunch etc. Filtering options will allow you to reach the best recipes that is suitable for you. You have multi choice options at the filtering screen that even includes fast, healthy, editor’s picks, low fat, 5 ingredients or less etc.

Recipes are explained well with its ingredients and preparation steps. You can reach some how-to secrets from the ingredients screen and get tips about cooking. There is also a chronometer included at the bottom of each recipe that allows you to keep track of cooking time easily.

Other Features of Must-Have Recipes from BHG

Besides 500 free recipes, you can buy additional recipes with in-app purchase if you desire

Cooking will be easier with 75 how-to videos and step-by-steps

You can share your favourite recipes via Facebook and e-mail with your friends.

Great side of the app is allowing you to add personal notes to any recipes. So you can personalize the recipes according to your preferences

You can create groups with your favourite recipes and save them.

You can buy bonus chapters that has more than 100 recipes each.

You can also create shopping lists from recipes and obtain the ingredients list easily.

Last Words

Must-Have Recipes from BHG has also smart user interface. It is very convenient to move through recipes.

AccuWeather is a great application that you can see the latest and accurate weather conditions from your phone or tablet. It offers detailed information like hourly forecast or long term predictions about two weeks. It has also videos and news section that you can hear about latest news by reading or watching videos.

Closer Look to AccuWeather

AccuWeather shows weather conditions to us with a compact interface. It is divided in tabs (like you see in the Google Play Store app) and you can easily pass to other pages easily by swiping left or right.

It lets you to add several locations and gathers information about all of them. Later, you can easily select one city and get the forecast information.

When you add at least one city, you can start to look forecast information. In the first section you can see the latest weather conditions like temperature, humidity, pressure, diw point etc. Besides, you can see hourly and daily data in the latter sections.

AccuWeather app also includes news and videos section. You can find forecast videos for world, europe, asia and more. News section has important news abot storms, snows etc.

Widgets of the AccuWeather is also very useful. Thay can be attached to pages anywhere you want. There are different widgets which have different themes and sizes. You can choose one of them and quickly see the most important data without need to open the app.

Main Features of the AccuWeather Android Application

Add/remove locations.

UV index, humidity, dew point, visibility, pressure, wind data.

Suggestion about activities like excersize at outside, fishing and game …

Noom Weight Loss Coach is great application to loose weight, eat well and stay motivated all the time. Over 9 Milllion kilograms have lost by the users of the app.

Version: 3.3.8

Requires: Android 2.1 and up

Category: Health & Fitness

Size: 23 MB

Price: Free

Closer Look to Noom Weight Loss Coach

Noom Weight Loss Coach is a useful app for people who want to loose weight. The app also guides you to eat healthier and be active with exercises. The app has become so popular and featured at New York Times, Women’s Health, Shape, Forbes and ABC News.

At the beginning, you have to set up your profile. This process includes entering your sex, age and height information. After this step, you will set up your weight loss plan. You will begin with entering your current weight and your target weight. You can choose “maintain weight” if you don’t want to loss weight. The app will get to know you better through food loggin & activity over the next 4 days.

You can think the app as your personal weight loss coach. It will create long term plan and give you daily tasks to reach your goal. You can also keep record of your progress from your daily meals to activities. The app also creates useful graphics to visualize your progress. You can reach informative articles from the app. Make discussions, ask questions and share tips with other users at forum.

Noom Weight Loss Coach will never let you forget your tasks by using its reminders. You can optionally choose not to use these reminders.

The app has also a smart user interface that makes navigating and reading easier.

Other features of Noom Weight Loss Coach

A personalized and interactive weight loss plan that gets you real results and helps keep the pounds off (86% of active users lose weight successfully)

An easy-to-use, color-coded food logging system that helps you learn what’s healthy and track meals quickly

An exercise tracker with real-time GPS and pedometer to record all your activities, inside or outside

Unique daily food and exercise tasks to help get to your goal. You’ll get something new every day to keep your program fresh!

Google drive makes your files accessible from everywhere. Its motto is “Keep everything, Share anything”. Indeed, it is well integrated with your Google account and your files under the Drive. It has compact and practical interface for mobile platforms that you can easily create and modify text files, spreadsheets and more.

Version: 1.1.592.10

Requires: Android 2.1 and up

Category: Productivity

Size: 7.2 M

Price: Free

Close Look to Google Drive

The term “cloud” is become very popular of late years. We start to keep our data online as the internet has become widespread. Because our life is getting mobile, the need to access data from various places has become critical. Cloud technology enables us to reach data from anywhere if we have an internet connection and any device to connect.

Another good feature of the cloud technology is its safety. Your data is stored safely in the remote servers. You don’t worry about losing your usb drive or any crash on your computer.

Google Drive product is released in April 2012 and it is replaced with the Google Docs by adding more functionality. If you have an Google account you don’t have to do additional things. You are given 5 GB free space for your storage. You can upload any files, create folders, create or modify files and much more.

You can keep your files private or make them public to certain people or everyone. This is very important feature at most situation and enable people to work on the same files simultaously with a good synchronization. It really saves much more time and increases productivity.

As you access your files by using web interface when you logged in to your Google account, you can also download and install PC version. When you set up Google Drive to your PC, new folder which is dedicated to Drive is created. That folder is continuously synchronized with the cloud and always kept up to date. The advantage of using PC version is that you are able to use any program which is installed on your computer to open and edit files in the Google Drive folder.

Main Features of the Google Drive Android Application

Google Drive Android application is designed for Android tablets and phones. Its native design is optimized for mobile devices and makes it easy to manage files under the Drive folder.

It is fully integrated with the Google account and you can see all the files in the latest versions. You can also upload files directly from your Android device. It lets you to edit text and spreadsheet files again directy from your mobile phone or tablet.

You can view presentations and PDFs. You can take photo and instantly upload on Drive.

In other Android applications, if you use share option, you can select and upload your files into Google Drive.

You can make files offline if they are not shared with someone else and read them without an internet connection.

News Republic gathers news from various news sources and presents them to you with a nice and compact view. It has customizable home screen; you can designate the screen layout and the topics which will be displayed.

Verison: 3.0.0

Requires: Android 1.5 and up

Category: News & Magazines

Size: 3.1 M

Price: Free

Closer Look to News Republic

News Republic is a well designed Android application for people who like to hear about latest news from various topics in one place. You can find news about topics that you are interested in and access them easily.

When you open the app, you will see the home screen which includes topics in a grid view look. The good feature of the News Republic is that its home screen is fully customizable. When you long press on one topic, you are able to adjust its location and size. So you can easily organize your homescreen by emphasizing the topics that are more important for you.

Also you can choose the subject of the topics as well as the news channels. There are many news channels in which you can select or deselect.

If you are familiar with Appy Geek, this app has similar look and structure with it. Appy Geek is just for technological news but News Republic is more general and includes wide variaty of subjects.

Main Features of News Republic

Personalize: You can personalize the app by customizing the home screen. It lets you to adjust the size and locations of the home screen topics. Also you can select the topics which will be displayed on the homescreen.

By swiping left and right, easily see other news about the same topics.

Otaku Camera Free is a interesting photo editing app that turn your photos into manga style works of art!

Version: 4.6

Requires: Android 2.3.3 and up

Category: Photography

Size: 24 MB

Price: Free

Closer Look to Otaku Camera Free

Do you like editing your photos with different effects? If so, Otaku Camera Free will help your to make unique photos for yourself. Magnetize yourself, objects, animals and anything that you want. You can take photos within the app or can choose photos saved to your device.

There are more than 80 different effects in the app. You can also download additional effect packs in the app.

Editing Photos

It is easy to edit photos with Otaku Camera Free. Choose one of your photos from gallery or take a new photo within the app. After that frame selection screen will appear. Choose the appropriate one and proceed to the trimming screen. You can change the position and size of the photo. Cropping option is also available. Next screen will give you two choices. You can adjust thickness of the lines and the brightness of the photo.

You can share the photo your with your friends via Facebook and Twitter. If you do not want to share, you can save it to your gallery.